Delhi CM Rekha Gupta launches ‘Air Pollution Mitigation Plan’
Delhi CM Rekha Gupta launches ‘Air Pollution Mitigation Plan’ In a major push to tackle chronic air pollution, CM Rekha Gupta on Tuesday launched the ‘Air Pollution Mitigation Plan 2025’, titled Shuddh Hawa Sabka Adhikar – Pradushan Par Zordar Prahar.The multi-pronged strategy aims to target pollution from dust, vehicles, and landfills through 18 structured action points. She said the government envisions a “clean and healthy Delhi” and described the city’s air pollution as a year-round health crisis. “Green Delhi, Healthy Delhi is not a slogan—it’s our mission,” she announced key interventions such as the deployment of 2,299 electric autos at metro stations and the plantation of 70 lakh saplings under the Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam campaign. A key feature of the plan is a pilot cloud seeding project to induce artificial rain, to be implemented in collaboration with IIT Kanpur. Other innovative moves include the installation of mist sprayers on electric poles across 13 pollution hotspot...